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The ashes of john, caroline and lauren are scattered at sea. a private memorial mass is held in new york. >> it seems to fall to ted kennedy he must eulogize everyone who is taken too soon. >> i think the most difficult moment of that funeral service was teddys final eulogy when he said john had every gift but length of years. that single line encapsulated the tragedy on a personal level, but also what a tragedy it was for what could have been for the country. ♪ come to my window ♪ ohh ♪ c...

A private memorial mass is held in new york. >> it seems to fall to ted kennedy that he must eulogize everyone who was taken too soon. >> i think the most difficult moment of that funeral service was teddys final eulogy when at the end he said that john had every gift but length of years. that single line encapsulated both the tragedy on a personal level but also what a tragedy it was for what could have been for the country. ♪ bad enough that we ♪ always have something to get over ♪ ♪ o...

>> for two days mourners lined 25 blocks outside saint patricks cathedral to pass by kennedys coffin. the service it self, 2000 mourners crowded the cathedral. it included the rich and famous, also the dispossessed, farm w e workers, people who felt close to jfk. >> bobbys brother joe is too ill to attend the funeral. his only surviving son ted delivers the eulogy. >> he had to be tested immediately. the world expected it. >> my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death what he was in l...

>> what he said wasnt the sort of thing people expected to hear. >> she says i dont care where you do it, when you do it, i want it now. >> it was aunusual and not a vey emotional eulogy for reasons tom only understand, but her parents were furious. >> he had that opportunity to speak and share about the woman he so-called loved and called his eternal wife, all he did was degrade her. >> what was it like? >> it was shocking. it was unbelievable. >> as the days turned into weeks, tom remained fre...

Criminal justice area, something dr. king, people dont want to mention it, he talked about police brutality, some issues that many of us have dealt with in the last several years again, just in the last ten days. i was staying at the king memorial in memphis and atlanta, i did a eulogy less than a week before that over an unarmed young man killed by police in sacramento. and stephon clark and while i was at the crypt watching his children, dr. kings children, i have a young man killed in brookly...

Four days after she was shot, erica woke up and started talking to her family. in the icu, erica was feisty and combative. her neurosurgeon said that was a positive sign. her brain was rebooting. >> did you pray a lot. >> oh, yes. >> judith was the most religious one in the family and a week after surgery, her prayers and unshakable faith were answered. ericas condition was upgraded from critical to fair. >> she looked real bad, but i never dwelled on she wasnt going to make it. >> now the famil...

Were nowhere near where we need to be. less than a week ago, im doing the eulogy over an unarmed black man shot in sacramento. dr. king talked about police brutality 50 years ago. were still dealing with it but weve made a lot of progress because of what he did because he went from demonstration to legislation voter rights and civil rights. he changed america. >> thank you. its great to have you as a colleague. take care of yourself. reverend al sharpton, the sacramento because he does go where ...

Keep fighting. when the family asked me to come do this eulogy, you dont enjoy this, but you dont want to not respond to people in pain that have faith that you can help them through this. >> how has the message changed for you when youve done these yu? >> in many ways theyre similar. its a lot of pain and frustration and a lot of why dont people get it. in some ways its changed because youre seeing younger people that do it their style. when i was young i wore the track suits. that was the styl...

Supply to be redirected to the people that need it most. magic cant make digital transformation happen... but we can. ♪ from only the thickest, juiciest heinz tomatoes. no one grows ketchup like heinz™. to the index of other news tonight, and an emotional good-bye to stephon clark, the unarmed black man who died in a police-involved shooting in sacramento. hundreds lining up today outside the church before the funeral. mourners comforting one another all day. the reverend al sharpton deliv...

Powerful eulogy. watch this. >> yesterday, the presidents press secretary said this is a local matter. no, this is not a local matter. theyve been killing young black men all over the country. and we are here to say that were going to stand with stephon clark and the leaders of his family. they are putting aside our differences. its time for preachers to come out of the pulpit. its time for politicians to come out of their office. its time for us to go down and stop this madness. >> obviously, s...